Furniture stop



United States Patent yv F FURNITURE STOP Robert D. Lindgren, Minneapolis, Minn. Application March 3, 1955, Serial No. 492,011

1 claim. (Cl. 4's13'7) My invention relates to stops for furniture, such as chairs, davenports, and the like, and provides means whereby said article of furniture may be prevented from coming into contact with and damaging the decorated walls of a room.

The present invention is an improvement over my previously filed application, entitled Chair and Davenport Stop, S. N. 370,115, iiled on July 24, 1953.

An object of my invention is to `provide a novel and improved furniture stop which may be inexpensively produced yet of rugged and durable construction, easily and simply attached Ito a piece of furniture, and simply and effectively operative.

A further object of my invention is to provide a furni- H ture stop having a longitudinally adjustable arm pivotally swingable between a rearwardly and downwardly extending operative position, an elevated rearwardly extending clean up position and a forwardly extending storage position, together with detent means for holding the arm at its storage position and at its clean up position; whereby my improved furniture stop, when secured to a piece of furniture, is pivotally swingable to its rearwardly and downwardly extending operative position which adapts it for variations in the height of its attachment to the furniture due to variations in frame construction, and further it may be easily positioned in and maintained at an elevated clean up position so that the floor and baseboard behind the furniture may be unobstructed for the cleaning thereof and it may be easily positioned and maintained at a storage position where it is disposed out of the way in an unobtrusive position.

'Ihese and other objects and advantages of my invention will become apparent from the following specification and claim, reference being had to .the accompanying drawings wherein:

vFig. 1 is a view in side elevation showing my invention secured to a chair and in operative position;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary enlarged view of the structure of Fig. 1, some parts being shown in section, and showing two dotted line positions of the pivotally swingable arm thereof;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view partly in section and partly in end elevation taken substantially on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary view in vertical section taken substantially on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2 with the arm thereof in its rearwardly and upwardly extending dotted line position.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, wherein like parts will be indicated by the same numeral, the general reference numeral 10 indicates my novel and improved furniture stop in its entirety. Stop 10 comprises a generally L-shaped attachment bracket 11 adapted to be detachably secured by means of bolts or the like 12 to the lower rear end portion of the frame 13 of a chair 14 or the like. A pair of spaced parallel ears 15 is rigidly secured to the under portion of bracket 11 in depending relationship. I provide an extensible and constrictable 27,769,275 Patented Nov. 6, 1956 longitudinally extending arm 16 comprising a front end section 17 and a rear end section 18, the latter being telescopically received within front end section 17. Longitudinal adjustments of sections 17 and 18 are secured through the medium of a set screw or the like 19. The forward end 20 of front section 17 is disposed between ears 15 and pivotally secured thereto by pin 21. Arm 16 is pivotally swingable in a generally vertical plane on the horizontal axis defined by pin 21 between a rearwardly and downwardly extending operative position, shown in Fig. 1 and in full lines in Fig. 2, an elevated rearwardly extending clean up position and a forwardly extending storage position, the last two mentioned positions being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. I further provide detent means comprising an inwardly projecting nub 22 formed in one of the ears 15 to releasably hold arm 16 at its clean up position and at its storage position. Preferably, the free end of rear arm section 18 is provided with a rubber-like buffer element 23.

As shown, when bracket 11 is secured to the frame member 1.3 through the medium of bolts .12, arm 16 may be swung vertically about pivot pin 21 to bring the bufferequipped end Z3 of rear section 18 into contact with the floor A. Thereafter, sections 17 and 18 of arm 16 are longitudinally adjusted so that when buffer end 23 is in contact with the baseboard B, as shown, the rearwardly extending portion of the back rest 24 of chair 14 will be spaced the desired distance from the wall C. Arm 16 is in its operative position when buffer end 23 engages the floor A and baseboard B, as shown in Figs. l and 2. Arm 16 may be swung generally vertically upwardly about pin 21 to the rearwardly extending position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2; and it is releasably maintained at this position by nub 22, as is particularly shown in Fig. 4. At this elevated position of arm 16, the floor A and baseboard B are unobstructed by stop 10 for cleaning behind the chair 14. Arm 16 may Valso be pivotally swung to its inoperative forwardly extending storage position wherein it underlies the chair 14 completely out of the way and in an unobtrusive position. Nub 22 maintains arm 16 in its inoperative position until it is desired to move the arm to its operative position. Thus, my invention may be attached to a chair 14 and maintained ready for immediate use, but unobtrusively positioned so that it is not readily observed even though the back of the chair 14 is disposed in the open.

My invention has been thoroughly tested and found to be completely satisfactory for the accomplishment of the above objects. It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that my invention may be modiiied by many substitutions and equivalents and that this disclosure is intended to be illustrative only; therefore, I intend to be limited solely by the scope of the appended claim.

What I claim is:

A furniture stop comprising an L-shaped bracket consisting of a normally generally horizontal flange portion and a normally generally vertical flange portion, said bracket being adapted to be rigidly detachably secured to the frame of a seat-forming piece of furniture with said generally vertical flange portion engaging the laterally outwardly facing back-side of said frame and said generally horizontally disposed flange portion engaging the underside of said frame, a pair of oppositely disposed the forward end of the front section of said arm to said ears for pivotal swinging movements of said arm about a generally horizontal axis parallel to said vertical ange portion through an angle of approximately 1,80"v wherein said arm is pivotally swingable from a generally horizontal position extending in one direction to a generally horizontal position extending in the opposite direction, said arm being pivotally swingable between an elevated rearwardly extending cleanup position and a rearwardly and downwardly extending operative position and a generally horizontally disposed forwardly extending storage position, said arm at its forwardly extending storage position being adapted to be disposed beneath said furniture laterally inwardly of the back thereof whereby to be ati tached to said piece of furniture and maintained ready for immediate use but disposed completely unobtrusively land without detraeting from the original appearance of the piece of furniture, and a laterally inwardly projecting nub formed in one of said ears and adapted to engage said arm adjacent its pivotal connection to said ears for releasably holding said arm at its cleanup position and at its storage position until released.

References Citedn in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,445,726 Soros Feb. 20, 1923 1,798,901 Punt Mar. 31, 1931 2,683,328 Thulin July 13, 1954 

